Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Bill Gulick, R. I. P.

Walla Walla Union-Bulletin: Grover C. “Bill” Gulick, a Walla Walla resident who became a nationally known western author, playwright and historian, died Friday. . . .  Gulick’s 1950 novel “Bend of the Snake” became the basis for the 1952 movie “Bend of the River,” starring James Stewart, Rock Hudson and Arthur Kennedy.

A second story, “The Road to Denver,” was made into a 1955 western of the same name.
A third novel, “The Hallelujah Train,” became the basis of the 1965 film “The Hallelujah Trail” starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick and Bill Hutton.
Two other works, “Hotel de Paree” and “Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader,” were turned into television episodes.
Link via James  Reasoner.

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